September 29
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September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining.
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Events
- 61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
- 48 BC - Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring were kept for Julius Caesar.
- AD 855 - Pope Benedict III becomes pope.
- 1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession
- 1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
- 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
- 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
- 1829 - London's reorganized police force, the Metropolitan Police, becomes the first official police department in the world.
- 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
- 1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
- 1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- 1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
- 1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
- 1941 - The Babi Yar massacre begins.
- 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.
- 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
- 1961 - The New York Times publishes music critic Robert Shelton's review of a performance from little known singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which will lead to Dylan's discovery by Columbia Records representative John Hammond
- 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite is launched.
- 1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
- 1964 - Argentine cartoonist Quino publishes his first Mafalda comic strip.
- 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
- 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.
- 1992 - Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
- 1996 - Super Mario 64, a revolutionary platformer game for the Nintendo 64, is released in the United States.
- 2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
- 2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.
- 2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
- 2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, thereby halfway to winning the prize.
- 2004 - Baseball: The Montreal Expos play their last game at Olympic Stadium.
- 2005 - US Senate confirms The Honorable John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
Births
- 106 BC - Pompey, Roman statesman and general (d. 48 BC)
- AD 1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
- 1328 - Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
- 1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
- 1511 - Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
- 1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
- 1561 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
- 1636 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
- 1639 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
- 1640 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
- 1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
- 1691 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
- 1725 - Robert Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
- 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
- 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (d. 1843)
- 1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
- 1843 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
- 1864 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
- 1895 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980).
- 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
- 1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. 1981)
- 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
- 1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
- 1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
- 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
- 1913 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1913 - Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
- 1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 - James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
- 1934 - Lance Gibbs, West Indian cricketer
- 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
- 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
- 1938 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- 1939 - Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1942 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1942 - Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator from Florida
- 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
- 1942 - Ian McShane, British actor
- 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
- 1951 - Michelle Bachelet, Chilean politician
- 1951 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
- 1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
- 1952 - Max Sandlin, American politician
- 1956 - Sebastian Coe, British athlete
- 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
- 1960 - Jennifer Rush, American singer
- 1961 - Rebecca DeMornay, American actress
- 1963 - Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player
- 1964 - Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
- 1964 - Tom Sizemore, American actor
- 1966 - Jill Whelan, American actress
- 1970 - Emily Lloyd, British actress
- 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
- 1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
- 1982 - Ariana Jollee, American actress and director
Deaths
- 48 BC - Pompey, the Great, Roman general (assassinated) (b. 106 BC)
- AD 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany
- 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
- 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
- 1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
- 1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
- 1833 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
- 1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, Scots/Irish poet (b. 1825)
- 1908 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)
- 1925 - Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)
- 1927 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
- 1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
- 1937 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
- 1967 - Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
- 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
- 1973 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
- 1975 - Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager
- 1982 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
- 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
- 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
- 1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
- 1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b. 1917)
- 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
- 2005 - Olga de Alaketu, Candomblé high priestess (b. c. 1925)
Holidays and observances
- RC Saints - Michaelmas - Christian feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael
Also see September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- England, Ireland - One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar
External links
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